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Topic: Rumney main cliff Parking lot, OPEN! (Read 1373 times)

A reminder the WMNF parking pass program help in part to pay for the lot improvements, The RCA supports the parking pass program.No matter what your opinion of the lot is, the ultimate goal is to reduce foot traffic along buffalo road.

Please remember that parking is in the lots only. Cars parked on Buffalo Road will be towed. Overflow parking is still available behind the Library at the beginning of Buffalo Road. Thank You.Chief MainRumney, PD

They did a great job. The parking spaces are painted and now we have many more spaces to park. There will be issues with the embankment around the lot where stones and sand were placed. Already, the sand is running into the parking lot, sifting through the holes in the wall. If anything, they should of thought more about the uphill water runoff.

I must be just about the last person on this forum to see the new lot for myself. I was surprised by the changes. A lot of effort and $$$ must have gone into making the new lot what it is now. What do I think? What has been done cannot be undone so that's that. IMHO, I hope the larger lot won't get the same level of treatment and detail. I do not see a compelling reason to pave the larger lot. I happen to think effort and $$$ would be better spent if they were to build a trail connecting the two lots so that climbers will be totally off Buffalo Road. And to address the shortcomings jammer had mentioned about the new lot.

I did not see any illegally parked vehicles today on Buffalo Road which is always a good thing.

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"You have to decide to do a flag, where you can broke your vertebrae or a barn door depending of your pro" - the poster formerly known as Champ

Soon i disagree. I think the big lot should be paved and lined so that people will park more appropriately and the spring flooding condition can be resolved. It is a disaster area every year after the snow melts and the spring rains come. It is also a mess when people park along the entrances, against the bathroom doors, crooked, widely spaced etc which in the end allows less people to park there.

that said i don't think it needs stone walls or any expansion.

A path connecting the lots should have been part of the original plan, i don't know why it wasn't. It makes it harder to convince people to cross back across the road to the path once they are already going on the road.

Love coming back to my car that is surrounded in an ocean of blistering hot pavement at the end of the day. Love the smell and I am sure glad they cut down those trees, what a pain in the ass they were. But I suppose if I came from a concrete jungle my perspective would be a little off base also. What a waste!

Jake, I hear you, honestly, but I think regrading, gravel in the problem spots, and better drainage should solve the flooding problem. And I think No Parking signs can be installed without resorting to painting lines on asphalt. By the way, I did not see any really poorly parked cars yesterday although I did not look to see if there were cars parked right next to the porta johns. And there were empty parking spots in the newer lot at 1pm! Imagine that.

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"You have to decide to do a flag, where you can broke your vertebrae or a barn door depending of your pro" - the poster formerly known as Champ

Ok, Some kind of improvement needs to be made on the big lot. leaving it as is as they have done the 10 years i've been going there is getting ridiculous. I would rather see pavement than nothing done at all.

Mike, once again FUCK OFF. you are becoming a fucking asshole.

OH yea... guess what. the more the old guard like Mark, Ward, etc work on wilderness crags the more folks of my generation who are going to be doing the improvements at Rumney. Get used to it. Some people aren't happy to sit by and watch trails erode, trees fall on people and parking lots turn into mud holes. Things will change. (Ward etc have done a great job over the years, I think it is time for others to start helping out)

Keep telling people not to maintain the area they use. Do you just drive a car until it dies? or do you change the oil, fix the engine, change tires. Use requires maintenance. The amount of use that Rumney gets requires a LOT more maintenance than it receives. I just do not understand your "leave it alone" thinking.. It makes zero sense and it is in some cases dangerous.

I guess i should have left this alone so someone could cut their rope and get injured like the guy at the Red? his brand new rope ended up like this and he decked.

I was at Rumney on May 29th and was surprised to see the huge tree that was on top of Shealyn's Way and A Week With Pete on the Parking Lot Wall laying to the left of the chimney, at the beginning of Chloe's Breakfast Special and Quinn/Callaghan. That was one huge tree and I sure hope nobody was around when it came down.

How does one become informed when work days are happening? I filled out the WMNF volunteers application and have not heard a word.